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Wednesday, Apr 24 2019, 6AM
Good morning Wednesday and welcome to the morning show! Harvey Danger's Sean Nelson said this song was "one of the best things we ever did..." bit.ly
Inspired by the poem Chicago by Carl Sandburg, Stevens has recorded several versions of this song. - bit.ly
Brooklyn-based band led by Zach Condon, who first began making home recordings as a teenager, and released his first album as Beirut at the age of 19. "It just didn't fit. I was that kid..." - n.pr
Formed in 1992, and led by singer/songwriter Grant Lee Phillips, the group disbanded in 1999. Here's a video of when Grant-Lee Phillips performed live in the KEXP studio in 2016: www.youtube.com
Amen Dunes performed this song, among others, when they visited the KEXP studios last year! Check it out here: www.youtube.com
Lea Porcelain reassures us I Am OK ! Read more here: www.kexp.org
By request for Al in Boston! Here's Pearl Jam recorded live at The Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington! Also, here's a video of Daughter/It's OK recorded at the Gorge: bit.ly
By request for Alison in Wyoming! Here's the video of the full performance, including Motion Sickness, when Phoebe Bridgers visited KEXP last year: www.youtube.com
Australian-based Courtney Barnett played live in the KEXP studio last year. Here's the full performance: www.youtube.com
One year after the death of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan, her band mates announced their final album, "In the End," a collection of songs O’Riordan worked on prior to her January 15th, 2018 death. Here's the official video for All Over Now: bit.ly
This song is about ANZAC (the equivalent of memorial day) in Australia. Here's the official video: bit.ly
The Waterboys are a British-Irish folk rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1983 by Scottish musician Mike Scott. They performed live on KEXP back in 2013! Here's the full video: www.youtube.com
World Party are a British musical group, and the solo project of Karl Wallinger. He started the band in 1986 in London after leaving The Waterboys. Karl Wallinger brought his World Party to the KEXP studio in 2012. Here's the full video: www.youtube.com
Happy 62nd birthday David J! Born on this day as David John Haskins, he wrote several Bauhaus tunes, as well as playing bass and vocals on many Love and Rockets songs - including this one. Here's a video of when he visited KEXP a couple of years ago: www.youtube.com
Are you ready for International Goth Day on May 22nd? Peter Murphy considers Silent Hedges to be one David J's best work as a songwriter and as a bass player. More here: www.songfacts.com
Seattle band playing at the Parliament Tavern on Saturday, June 1st! flooredfaces.bandcamp.com
Here's a video of when Ex Hex, power trio from Washington, DC performed in the KEXP studio: www.youtube.com
Local band The Black Tones will perform at the Capitol Hill Block Party this year.
They released a video game to go with this song! It's a fighter game with the option to play as either Eva Walker (guitar and vocals) or Cedric Walker (drums). More here: bit.ly
They released a video game to go with this song! It's a fighter game with the option to play as either Eva Walker (guitar and vocals) or Cedric Walker (drums). More here: bit.ly
Hailing from Chicago, sound and visual artist Damon Locks pulls samples from Civil Rights era speeches and recordings and weaves them into these tracks. In this song, Civil Rights Movement heroine Lena Horne declares, “I’m not gonna stop.” - bit.ly
This is the starting track from Michael Kiwanuka's 2016 release "Love & Hate". He wrote this nearly 10-minute track with American musician and hip-hop producer Inflo, and said the song "'Cold Little Heart' probably most describes where I got to after getting stuck in my own writing." - bit.ly
Kurt Vile is one of many artists playing THING Festival! And we are giving tickets away!!! Let's do this THING! thingnw.org
Released 30 years ago today! Here's the official video: www.youtube.com
James will peform at the Showbox SoDo on Tuesday, July 30th. Ticket info here: www.showboxpresents.com
New song by Ride! This is the lead single from their upcoming record This Is Not a Safe Place, set to be released on August 16th from Wichita Recordings.
Ride visited the KEXP studio in 2017: www.youtube.com
Ride visited the KEXP studio in 2017: www.youtube.com
Playing this Friday, April 26th at Lo-Fi as part of the 2019 Seagaze Festival! newagehealers.bandcamp.com
And tune into The Morning Show on KEXP tomorrow when we will play more shoegaze all morning in honor of Seagaze Festival.
And tune into The Morning Show on KEXP tomorrow when we will play more shoegaze all morning in honor of Seagaze Festival.
"I would never want to do that to you, I would never want to drive that fast" and here's the video: www.youtube.com
Happy birthday to Paul Ryder, bass Guitarist of Happy Mondays! Here's the official video from the English band Happy Mondays: www.youtube.com
Ready to party? HÆLOS performs at The Ruins on March 23rd! Ticket info here: www.stgpresents.org
David Bowie told LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy to get a Supro Dual Tone guitar, which Murphy then bought and played on this song! - bit.ly
This album was released 30 years ago today!!! Here's the official video: www.youtube.com
Florida-based band Merchandise played at the KEXP studio in 2017. Here's the full performance: www.youtube.com
Johnny Marr, co-songwriter of the Smiths, visited KEXP in 2018. Here's the video: www.youtube.com
Black Belt Eagle Scout will perform at THING, a festival in Port Townsend on August 24 & 25, and we are giving away tickets! Text (206) 903-5397 to try to win. Want to know more about Thing? thingnw.org
The album "Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost-Part`" is considered the first half of a two-piece project, being continued by their consecutive sixth studio album "Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2", to be released later in 2019. The official video for this song features Isaac Hempstead Wright (aka Bran from Game of Thrones): www.youtube.com
Editors performed live at KEXP last year! Here's the full performance: www.youtube.com
The Horrors performed "I Can See Through You" live on KEXP at the Doug Fir during MusicfestNW back in 2011: www.youtube.com
Six months after the release of their last full-length album Marauder, Interpol have announced a new project. The 5-track EP A Fine Mess is scheduled to be released on May 17! - bit.ly
She Past Away is a Turkish post-punk band, formed in 2006. Here's the official video: www.youtube.com
Apparently Sisters Of Mercy singer Andrew Eldritch doesn't really like the word "goth"? - bit.ly
New song by The National and they play Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA this August 29th! They performed live in the KEXP studio in 2017: www.youtube.com
By request - happy birthday Jules! Here's the full performance of Boy Genius at KEXP last year: www.youtube.com
"Full Moon Fever" was released 30 years ago today!
So, hey - what's your shoegaze music story? Tomorrow, The Morning Show on KEXP will play nothing but shoegaze in honor of this weekend's Seagaze Festival at LoFi Seattle! We want to hear from you: soundandvision@kexp.org
So, hey - what's your shoegaze music story? Tomorrow, The Morning Show on KEXP will play nothing but shoegaze in honor of this weekend's Seagaze Festival at LoFi Seattle! We want to hear from you: soundandvision@kexp.org
Happy 62nd birthday David J! In 2017, David J performed "The Dog End Of A Day Gone By" live on KEXP's The Morning Show: www.youtube.com
Playing THING thingnw.org Tickets go on sale Friday, but we got tickets to give away all day if you text "thing" to (206) 903-5397
Neumos sold in May 28th is sold out! But you can hear them live on KEXP that afternoon. www.kexp.org
De La Soul will be playing the just-announced THING festival in Port Townsend, Washington, August 24th-25th, 2019.